Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Malouf Bagley , Linda Marian May 13, 2005 ********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/obits/obitsca/obitsca.htm ********************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: K T bluewolf@onemain.com June 8, 2005, 9:42 pm The Bakersfield Californian Bagley, Linda Marian 1908 - 2005 Linda Marian Malouf Bagley Services: Sat., June 11, 10:30 a.m. Linda Marian Malouf Bagley, who came to the United States as a child and grew up, married and raised her family in Bakersfield, died May 13, 2005, in Columbia, Md. She was 96. Linda was born on May 24, 1908, in Zahle, a Christian village on Mount Lebanon, in what was then Syria but is now Lebanon. As a child of 4, she began her grand adventure with her mother, LaBiba Malouf. They traveled to Egypt, then Paris, and finally to Boston, where some of her mothers family lived. Linda later told her children and grandchildren of her memories of the country in which she was born and of the trip across the ocean to the United States. Eventually they arrived in Richfield, Utah, where her father, George Malouf, had come earlier with his brothers to establish a mercantile business. Later on trips through Utah she delighted in pointing out the building on the towns main street where the family store had been located. The family moved to Taft and later to East Bakersfield, where Linda grew up on Niles Street. Linda attended Bakersfield schools, including Kern County Union High School. In 1933, she married the boy next door, Fritz Austin Bagley. They had two daughters, Audrey and Patricia, and lived in Bakersfield, Mettler Station and Lebec. Fritz was a foreman for the California Division of Highways, now Caltrans. For several years, Linda was postmaster at the old Wheeler Ridge Post Office. After they retired, Linda and Fritz moved to Santa Rosa to be closer to their children and grandchildren. In 2003, because of her health, she moved to Columbia, MD. In later years she had two loves: her garden in Santa Rosa, filled with multicoloredcalla lilies, peonies, roses, geraniums, cactus, and fig and persimmon trees, and her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She cherished the time she was able to spend with them, right up to the days before she died. While her ability to speak her native Arabic faltered as she learned English, she never lost the ability to prepare excellent Lebanese dishes. The family favorite was a simple dish of string beans and ground lamb in a tomato sauce seasoned with cinnamon and other spices and served over rice (made with lots of butter). She meticulously taught her daughters and some of her grandchildren more sophisticated fare: grape leaves stuffed with ground lamb and rice; raw and baked kibbeh, prepared with finely ground lamb (Make sure its not mutton!) and cracked wheat; and tabbouleh. The herbs and spices of her native land were in her kitchen right to the end. Linda was a member of the Masonic Order of the Amaranth for 62 years. She joined Bakersfield Court No. 103 in 1943. She was Royal Matron of the Court in 1949. At her death she was one of two longest-serving members of the order in California. She belonged the Order of the Eastern Star for more than 50 years, initially a member of Libertas Chapter in Bakersfield. She was also Guardian of Jobs Daughters Bethel No. 28 in Bakersfield in 1956-57 when her daughter Patricia was Honored Queen. For many years, she was a member of the First Congregational Church of Bakersfield. Linda is survived by her daughters, Audrey Lorraine Bagley Brown of Oceanside, CA, and Patricia Ruth Bagley Houck of Ellicott City, MD. She is also survived by six grandchildren, Michael Brown of Carlsbad, CA, Richard Brown of Folsom, CA, Donald Brown of Orangevale, CA, Christopher Houck of Ellicott City, MD, Caroline Houck of Guerneville, CA, and Amanda Houck of New York City, and by five great grandchildren, Jason Brown, Ryan Brown, Sarah Brown, Lauren Brown and Graham Houck. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fritz Bagley, who died in 1974, her mother, LiBiba Malouf Littlefield, her father, George Malouf, her stepfather, William J. Littlefield, and her four brothers, Albert, Theodore, Herbert and Robert Malouf. Services will be at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, June 11, at the chapel of Greenlawn Memorial Park on River Boulevard. A gathering for family and friends will be held afterward. For more information, call Gail Malouf at (661) 334-2100. The family suggests donations in Lindas name to the Northern California Shriners Hospital for Children; 2425 Stockton Boulevard; Sacramento, CA 95817. Legacy.com Published in the Bakersfield Californian from 6/8/2005 - 6/9/2005. Additional Comments: Volunteer submission - No relation to deceased. http://www.legacy.com/bakersfield/LegacyHome.asp File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/kern/obits/maloufba7978gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/caobfiles/ File size: 5.2 Kb